Reaching Beyond Earth's Atmosphere

Tag: 200

Astronauts Peggy Whitson and Jack Fischer completed a 4 hours, 13 minute spacewalk successfully today, this was the 200th at the International Space Station.

The spacewalk which was shortened due to an issue with a Service and Cooling Umbilical hose used to provide power and consumables to the spacesuits while inside of the station, this resulted in both Astronauts having to share one reducing the overall battery time they had available.

However, despite this, they were able to complete the following tasks:-

Replaced ExPRESS Carrier Avionics (ExPCA)

Installed Pressurized Mating Adapter-3 (PMA-3) Forward Shield

Installed Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) 1552 Terminator

Secured Multilayer Insulation (MLI) on Japanese Manipulator System

Relocated a Portable Foot Restrain to PMA-3

This was Peggy’s ninth spacewalk for a total time of 57 hours, 35 minutes and Jack’s first.

This brings the total time for ISS spacewalks to 1247 hours, 55 minutes.